From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Oct 27 12:33:08 1995
Subject: gets SIGSEGV after help<CR><CR><CR>
From: John Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Mirsad Todorovac <tm at rasips2 dot rasip dot etf dot hr>
Cc: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 03:27:50 -0500

Mirsad Todorovac <tm at rasips2 dot rasip dot etf dot hr> wrote:

: 	While compiling with gcc 2.7.0 I had complaints about:
: 	a) for (int i; ... ) { scope
: 		avoided with -fno-for-scope
: 	b) private constructors
: 		avoided with -fno-access-control
: 	c) obfuscated definitions in <cstring.h> header file.
: 	   Including this file from test C++ source induced no errors
: 	   I used -D__CSTRING__ to bypass this lines, only on this
: 	   files that made problems.

I'm not sure what you mean by (c), but I believe these problems are
fixed in my current sources, which compile cleanly with g++ 2.7.0.
Also, there is a patch in the file

  ftp://ftp.che.wisc.edu/pub/octave/README-GCC-2.7.0

that should allow you to compile Octave 1.1.1 with gcc 2.7.0.

Thanks,

jwe